This here Echo & the Bunnymen album "What Are you Going to do with your Life?" is GREAT. I love it... a lot. A LOT!!! And it might not be because of how it sounds, but because it gives me memories... Either way, I love it. The weird thing is, it's only about 7 or 8 years old, but that's over half my life. ;D

Anyway, I was just wondering what albums/songs/artists make you feel this way.

And now Tegan & Sara's So Jealous album makes me nostalgic for last year...

I get nostalgic when I hear some 60s songs.  My parents used to listen to an oldies station in the car and we'd always tune in to hear Saturday Night Golden Memories request show.  I even requested a few songs when I was a kid.

A few songs that always get me to thinking about that part of my childhood:

Daddy's Home by Shep and the Limelights
See you in September by The Happenings (a song I remember requesting for my favorite teacher at the beginning of summer break)
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Hey Paula - Paul & Paula
Angel Baby - Rosie and the Originals
Don't Let the Sun catch you crying - Gerry and the Pacemakers

I've been this way pretty far back in my memory, because my life always included music. There's some people who will probably laugh at me over this, but even in the early '90s (when I was around 10), there would be times I'd see a music video on MTV or VH1 from, say 1984 and go "Hey I heard this when I was 4!" or something. ;D

This is something that has been totally lost on some older generation people, but if I felt that way when I was still in literal childhood, imagine how much it's built up now. Every few years, I'll start tacking on a certain time onto the era I consider nostalgic and old-school. I don't think I'll ever do it with today as much, though. It's the time before high school and the beginning of what'll become the adult world that really counts (for me, up through 1996).

Especially if I actually heard it growing up in that actual time it was popular.

I was just a skinny lad  from the mid to late 60's when groups like Eric Burdon & The Animals were tearing up the music scene, & I felt nostalgic today on the way home from work when the radio played  "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and it triggered memories from 40 years ago. It's like a bunch of short clips of childhood, & adolescence going thru my mind, sometimes very vivid at times.  Food has a similar ability to trigger memories.

"Fake Plastic Trees" and "High & Dry" by Radiohead.

Whenever I hear any song from either Decade or Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young
It takes me right back to 1979, sitting in a friends house drinking some Piels Real Draft,
smoking some.......I better stop right here and say no more.  ;D, anyway Neil Young and
The Rolling Stones are very nostalgic for me.

"Please Call Me, Baby" and "San Diego Serenade" by Tom Waits.

Listening to the Grateful Dead makes me really nostalgic for when I was a teenager.  It seems we always had them on while we partied.  :D  The Violent Femmes, Bob Dylan, and certain Radiohead songs also take me back.

James Taylor takes me back to around '77, when I first moved to Phoenix.  Seems like he was on the radio all the time (or at least on the station my parents listened to).

Classic CANCON from 1987: 'Where is Love' by Diamond in the Rough. 

Whenever I hear this song, it really takes be back to my youth in the 80s.  Though it was far from being a big hit, I still remember it, and it takes me back to a time when you could turn on the radio and hear good pop songs, one after the other

Nowdays, you turn on the radio and if you hear a good song, you're pretty lucky, because usually you have to wait through like 50 crappy songs until they play the good ones, which are not many

Songs that take me back to the late '90s/early '00s:

Crush - Jennifer Paige
Don't Let Go - En Vogue
Never Ever - All Saints
Un Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
Pony - Ginuwine
Never Let You Go - Third Eye Blind
Miami - Will Smith
Genie In The Bottle - Christina Aguilera
I Try - Macy Gray
Turn off the Light - Nelly Furtado
All For You - Janet Jackson
Play - Jennifer Lopez

These songs take me back to my senior year in high school:

"1979"-Smashing Pumpkins
"Wonderwall"-Oasis
"Cumbersome"-Seven Mary Three
"In the Meantime"-Spacehog
"Santa Monica"-Everclear
""Roll to Me"-Del Amitri
"Tell Me"-Groove Theory
"Nobody Knows"-The Tony Rich Project
"Follow You Down"-Gin Blossoms
"Closer to Free"-BoDeans
"Just a Girl"-No Doubt

There's no way I could make an entire list, lol, but here's some that really take me back personally. Keep in mind that some of this I listened to secondhand. I was born in 1981 and kept getting deeper into '80s music during the '90s for instance (although alot of it I heard during the real Eighties too).

-'80s:

The Heart of Rock and Roll - Huey Lewis
Little Red Corvette - Prince
Living on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
I Want To Know What Love is - Foreigner
Straight Up - Paula Abdul
The Finer Things - Steve Winwood
Beat It - MJ
Invisible Touch - Genesis
Parents Just Don't Understand - Will Smith
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Jump - Van Halen
Take On Me - Aha
Some Guys Have All The Luck - Rod Stewart
Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
Don't Come Around Here - Tom Petty (even if the video scared me, lol)
All Night Long - Lionel Richie
Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
Something So Strong - Crowded House
Born In the USA - Bruce Springsteen
Africa - Toto
Whip It - Devo

-Old-school Nineties (1990-1996):

Rush Rush - Paula Abdul
When I Come Around - Green Day
How Do You Talk to an Angel - The Heights
U Can't Touch This - Hammer
More Than Words Can Say - Alias
Everyday - Phil Collins
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
Come As You Are - Nirvana
The Sign - Ace of Base
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Baby I Love Your Way - Big Mountain
Ironic - Alanis Morisette
Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams
I Can Love You Like That - All 4 One
Baby Baby - Amy Grant
Wild Night - John Mellencamp
This is How We Do It - Montell Jordan
Steel Bars - Michael Bolton (this was an '80ish harder rock song he did in 1991)
Colors of the Wind - Vanessa Williams
Where the River Flows - Collective Soul

P.S. There were also some oldies that I listened to secondhand, such as The Beatles (especially the White Album), Motown songs from the Big Chill soundtrack, early Rolling Stones, Peter Paul and Mary, The Drifters, America, The Doors, etc.

These songs take me back to my senior year in high school:

"1979"-Smashing Pumpkins
"Wonderwall"-Oasis
"Cumbersome"-Seven Mary Three
"In the Meantime"-Spacehog
"Santa Monica"-Everclear
""Roll to Me"-Del Amitri
"Tell Me"-Groove Theory
"Nobody Knows"-The Tony Rich Project
"Follow You Down"-Gin Blossoms
"Closer to Free"-BoDeans
"Just a Girl"-No Doubt


You would've graduated around 2001, right? Were you into (slightly) old school music at the time? When I was in high school in the late '90s, even though I still dug some of the lighter pop and rock songs, my favorites were what I'd grown up with in the '80s and earlier '90s.

You would've graduated around 2001, right? Were you into (slightly) old school music at the time? When I was in high school in the late '90s, even though I still dug some of the lighter pop and rock songs, my favorites were what I'd grown up with in the '80s and earlier '90s.


I think she graduated in 1996 going by those songs, I don't know what the 83 in her name is but it doesn't look like her birth year since her profile does say she's 29 years old (which would go in line with her graduating in 1996).

^ Ah, that makes more sense actually. The '83 did throw me off initially, but then again I don't always put '81 as the year for my username on other boards either, lol.

The Ramones.....make me feel nostalgic. I started really listening to them when I was around 14 or so. I was listening to my older cousin's music and stumbled upon the Ramones....and I've been a hardcore fan ever since. :)

If I had to just pick ONE artist, it would be Huey Lewis. He's actually from the Bay Area himself and even lived in the general area we did when he was at his most popular in like 1983-1986. His music is upbeat, very lighthearted pop/classic rock that just makes you feel good. It reminds me of my parents and just alot of early growing up memories.

The fact that "Power of Love" was in the first BTTF movie is just an extra thing I found out later on. ;)

You would've graduated around 2001, right? Were you into (slightly) old school music at the time? When I was in high school in the late '90s, even though I still dug some of the lighter pop and rock songs, my favorites were what I'd grown up with in the '80s and earlier '90s.


I graduated from high school in 1996 (11 years already!  :o), and these songs were played on the radio quite a bit at that particular time. I used to alternate between the alt-rock station, the AC stations (the only way to get my 80's music fix at the time), and, very seldomly, the Top 40 station. Alternative rock and rap/hip hop were the most popular musical genres among my friends and classmates.

I think she graduated in 1996 going by those songs, I don't know what the 83 in her name is but it doesn't look like her birth year since her profile does say she's 29 years old (which would go in line with her graduating in 1996).


Yes, that is right.... :) My user name "Coqueta" is the name of an 80's movie from Mexico (a personal favorite of mine, even if the ending was very sad) and the "83" is the year the movie came out (and one of my favorite years of the 80's!  :)). I'm really sorry if it caused any confusion.  :-[

The Ramones.....make me feel nostalgic. I started really listening to them when I was around 14 or so. I was listening to my older cousin's music and stumbled upon the Ramones....and I've been a hardcore fan ever since. :)


I didn't know you listen to them! :P

I didn't know you listen to them! :P



hahaha..ya right! ;D

Yes, that is right.... :) My user name "Coqueta" is the name of an 80's movie from Mexico (a personal favorite of mine, even if the ending was very sad) and the "83" is the year the movie came out (and one of my favorite years of the 80's!   :)). I'm really sorry if it caused any confusion.  :-[


No confusion

Heck, people think I am a dog that whistles :D

No confusion

Heck, people think I am a dog that whistles :D


... And they think I'm just a slab of meat.

... And they think I'm just a slab of meat.



oh you are...hubba hubba! LOLOL!!! ;D

These songs take me back to my senior year in high school:

"1979"-Smashing Pumpkins
"Wonderwall"-Oasis
"Cumbersome"-Seven Mary Three
"In the Meantime"-Spacehog
"Santa Monica"-Everclear
""Roll to Me"-Del Amitri
"Tell Me"-Groove Theory
"Nobody Knows"-The Tony Rich Project
"Follow You Down"-Gin Blossoms
"Closer to Free"-BoDeans
"Just a Girl"-No Doubt

Songs that take me back to the late '90s/early '00s:

Crush - Jennifer Paige
Don't Let Go - En Vogue
Never Ever - All Saints
Un Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
Pony - Ginuwine
Never Let You Go - Third Eye Blind
Miami - Will Smith
Genie In The Bottle - Christina Aguilera
I Try - Macy Gray
Turn off the Light - Nelly Furtado
All For You - Janet Jackson
Play - Jennifer Lopez



All great songs!  Just reading the lists took me back...

... And they think I'm just a slab of meat.


You mean you aren't?

Way to disappoint us >:( :\'(

You mean you aren't?

Way to disappoint us >:( :\'(


My name wasn't always Meat!

My name wasn't always Meat!


Better not reveal all of your secrets... :-X

My name wasn't always Meat!


speaking of which, why is it Meat! ?

speaking of which, why is it Meat! ?


'Tis funny... Well, to one person who doesn't really post here much anymore...

Classical Gas - Mason Williams

'Tis funny... Well, to one person who doesn't really post here much anymore...


Becks ?

Becks ?


Beths.

All great songs!  Just reading the lists took me back...


What about mine? lol. I know I stopped after 1996, even though I like alot of Y2K era songs, it's not nearly at the "nostalgia" level that my childhood and very early teens are.